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0. SPIER. Sectional Kitchen Safe.

PatentedSept. 28,1880.

Wi/zmwea' N. PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHIER. wAsHmGTO v D UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEO CHARLES SPIER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH PETERS FURNITURE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SECTIONAL KITCHEN-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,772, dated September 28, 1880.

Application filed June 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES SPIER, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sectional Kitchen-Safes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvement relates to that class of kitchen-safes which are shipped from the factory to the merchant or user in a knockdown condition 5 and it consists, primarily, in constructingthe frame of four sections, the

end uprights of which are arranged to fit against the outer ends of the front and back sections, and with them form a complete frame and legs.

The improvement also consists in certain details in construction, clearly pointed out in the specification and claims.

The frame is shown as constructed for the reception of a drawer; but this is not an essential part of my invention.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, with one end removed and shown in inside perspective, the top being absent, and also the gauze or perforated sheets of the doors to show the construction of the safe.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section at a a.

A is the front of the safe, having half-legs a, and B is the back of the safe, having halflegs 5.

G C are the ends, having halflegs c c, which, 5 when the safe is completed, form, with the part legs a and b, the legs ofthe safe. Thus thelegs consist of two pieces each, making a strong leg with timber of common thickness. As the parts leave the factory for shipment the back consists of the uprights or legs I), the crossbars I), and the siding pieces b fitting in grooves of the uprights and bars. The front consists of the legs or uprights a, the crossbars a, and the doors a hinged to the up rights. Each of the ends consists of the legs 5 or uprights c, the cross-bars c, the perforated plates or gauze c and cleats c and 0 which form guides in putting the end in place by contact with the inner sides of the front and back, and serve to give stability to the safe, as well as forming support for the bottom and drawer.

It will be observed that, by having distinct uprights a a for the front, 5 b for the back, and c c for each side, I am enabled to form the 5 5 walls of the safe complete in four separate parts, in which the pieces are firmly framed together, so as to occupy but little more space than bare lumber, and the parts are attached together by common screws D in screw-holes (I, so that no mechanical knowledge is needed in putting up the safes, nor can they be put together out of square.

I claim as my invention- 1. A sectional kitchen safe consisting of four parts, A B O O, the front A having halflegs or uprights a, cross-bars a and hinged doors a, the back B having grooved half-legs or uprights b, grooved cross-bars b, and sliding pieces b and the end sections, O, having half-legs or uprights c, cross-bars c, cleats c c, and gauze or perforated plates 0 substantial] y as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The sectional kitchen safe herein described, having uprights and half-legs a b c c, the legs 0 a resting against and being secured to the legs a b, as and for the purpose set forth.

OHS. SPIER. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

